Foundation For A Healthy Oklahoma

Foundation For A Healthy Oklahoma, a tax-exempt nonprofit and subsidiary of the Oklahoma Hospital Association, operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal health grants issued to the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The organization has received six federal grant sub-awards totaling $8 million since July 2024, focused on community health infrastructure and chronic disease prevention across rural Oklahoma.

Foundation For A Healthy Oklahoma does not hold prime contracts or serve as a prime grant recipient; all six awards in the source data are sub-awards flowing through state health agencies. The organization's grantor agencies cluster within the Department of Health and Human Services: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2 awards), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2 awards), and the Administration for Children and Families (1 award). The funding reflects CDC and CMS grant programs aimed at disease prevention, health workforce capacity, and chronic condition management at the state and local level.

The organization's recent work centers on three capability areas. Community Health Worker expansion represents two sub-awards from the Oklahoma State Department of Health — a March 2026 sub-grant to expand CHW use in rural communities and demonstrate return on investment, and a January 2025 sub-award to embed community health workers in four Oklahoma hospital emergency rooms to address opioid misuse and abuse. Diabetes prevention and screening forms a second focus: a September 2025 sub-award supports technical assistance, education, and systems change with two Oklahoma Hospital Association member hospital systems to increase diabetes screening rates, including informatics support and electronic medical record workflow optimization under the OSDH CDC Diabetes grant workplan. Lung cancer screening in rural areas comprises the third area, with a March 2026 sub-award aimed at expanding comprehensive screening programs, improving early diagnosis, and supporting cessation services. A July 2024 sub-award to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services carried training, technical assistance, and liaison duties with no additional descriptive detail in the source.

Activity has accelerated: one award in 2024, three in 2025, and two in early 2026. The organization operates under its parent, the Oklahoma Hospital Association, a nonprofit entity at the same address in Oklahoma City that holds both federal contract prime awardees and federal grant prime awardees in its own portfolio. Foundation For A Healthy Oklahoma's posture is entirely sub-recipient, channeling federal health dollars through state agencies into hospital systems and community-based health delivery across Oklahoma.